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wikiHow hiring Office Manager/Assistant to CEO (palo alto)
compensation: Salary TBD, insurance (health, vision, dental), vacation
wikiHow is looking for an Office Manager / Assistant to the CEO
About wikiHow
wikiHow is how-to website. Our mission is to educate every person on the planet on how-to do anything. Alexa ranks wikiHow in the top 150 most popular sites on the web.
We have 20 delightfully quirky, education focused, insanely productive, fun employees in our homey office in downtown Palo Alto near Caltrain.
Why we exist
Imagine a world where anyone can easily learn how to do anything. A world where access to comprehensive step-by-step instructions in multiple languages enables billions of people to improve their lives, in both ordinary and extraordinary ways. That’s the world we want to create.
Job Duties
This is really 2 jobs in 1: An Office Manager and an Assistant to the CEO. Duties of each role are listed below:
Office Manager •Find ways to help members of the team save time at work.
•Make our office visually stunning – When people walk in the door, we want them to be blown away at how cool our office looks and feels.
•Buy and replenish supplies.
•Create systems to make everything in the office run smoother. For example, setting up a system to streamline ordering and bringing in lunches for the team.
•Run errands.
•Assist with recruiting and hiring for various job functions.
•Provide some energy and good cheer to improve the already happy vibe in our office.
•Anticipate needs for the office and team and solve them before anyone even asks.
•Buy swag and gifts.
•Support tasks for the team and other managers.
•Participate on wikiHow by writing or editing articles.
Executive Assistant to CEO •Help me be more productive. Figure out what could be done to free up time for core activities.
•Help with recruiting – One of the jobs that I wish I did more proactively is to always be recruiting great people to work at wikiHow. You can help me with this by helping me keep in touch with the talented people I most want to work with.
•Help me remember the things I’m likely to forget.
•Manage calendars and book travel.
•Pick up lunches and run errands.
•Assist with making or tidying PowerPoint or Keynote presentations.
•Online research.
Job Requirements •Service oriented. Sincerely enjoy helping and supporting everyone, and feeling intrinsically satisfied with your success even without much external validation. Delighted in making others happy for the sheer joy of it.
•Equally comfortable on and offline. In a given day, you might be asked to assist with market research, assemble office furniture, order something online, organize the kitchen, and troubleshoot a projector and microphone setup for a videoconference — and that’s just before lunch.
•Insanely productive. If you have read this far you’ve already noticed that the duties of this job are already 2
•3x that of a typical EA or Office Manager. That’s how every job is at wikiHow and people here love it. We won’t ask you to work crazy hours (we work around ~40 hours per week), but we do expect that you are lightning fast to make your work day efficient.
•Relish accomplishing a lot, but with limited instructions. We”ll often be sparse with my instructions. Mistakes will be made on both sides and we’ll laugh about it later.
•Proactive in seeking out ways to help the company.
•Versatile. Enthused to learn new things fast.
•Super organized.
•Detail oriented.
•Interested in continuous improvement. Can see imagine ways he can do more / add more value. Always looking for ways to do something better.
•Preference given to candidates that live within 25 minutes of downtown Palo Alto or with easy access to Caltrain. Long commutes make people sad. I don’t want you to be sad.
•Interested in doing this job for many, many years. wikiHow is just getting going in a decades-long effort to give every person on the planet a free practical education. We want to team up with people who want to be here for a long enjoyable ride.
•A few years of administrative assistant or office manager experience.
•College degree preferred.
Compensation
•Competitive cash compensation
•401k
•Health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
•Paid vacation
How to Apply
Share your resume and cover letter in Google Document format with us by sending us the URLs. Note you will have to have the setting to those documents on “anyone with the link can see” so we can pass the URLs around with our team. Email the links to jobs@wikihow.com and write “Office Manager / EA” in the subject header. In your cover letter please answer these three questions: •What appeals to you about this role?
•Tell me about yourself — include links to your online profiles
•Why do you think you’d do well at this